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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 95

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  1. L9G
  2. as it did uxon my Fye, the Came Colour alvays aP.
  3. Pearins to a By. Rander upon my Leyc irhich to me ap-
  4. Peared upon the speculum. And thence PHner that
  5. the RingsoFColours upon the Chart irere made brthese
  6. reflected COlours provasated thither from the Specu-
  7. lum in sereral Angles, and that their production de-
  8. pended noc upon the termination of Lisht and Shad-
  9. dor.
  10. OB5. VII.
  11. By the AnalosY oF alI these Phaenomena With thole oE
  12. the like Rinss oF Colours described in the trst Part oF
  13. this Book, it scemed to me that these C OlOurS were
  14. produced by this thick plate of Clals, much alter the
  15. manner thac thole vere produced by very chin
  16. plates. For, upon trral, I Found that it the Ouick-
  17. lilrer vere rubbed off trom the back- side ot the Specu
  18. lum, the Class alone ould, cause the Tame RiInsS Ot
  19. Colours, buc much more faint thanbetore; and there.
  20. tore the Phaenomenon depends not upon the Cuick-
  21. Elver, untels Cotar as the Duiek-silver by the increa(in
  22. the reflexion oFthe back. side oF the Cilals increales the
  23. Light oF che Rings oF Colours. Ltound also that a SPC.
  24. culum ot metal rithont Cilals made lome rears lince
  25. for opticalules, and very ell irousht, produced none
  26. OF thole Rings; and thence L understood that thele
  27. Rinss arise not trom one specular surtace alone, but
  28. dependupon thetro surtaces ofthe plate ot Cilass Wrhere,
  29. oFthe Speculum ras made, and upon che chicknels ot
  30. che Cilais betireen them. For a5 in the7th and T9th
  31. Oblerrations oE che tirst Part oE this B0ok a chin plate

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 95. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0271?run=74